voice conferencing with windows users

[Christopher Lemire]

Why is it possible to have sound in Skype and other applications
simultaneously in Windows then? Ubuntu shouldn't be limited.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

> Chris Lemire wrote:
>
>> Since pulseaudio has been in Fedora and Ubuntu, Skype now gives me more
>> problems. Skype has not been working at all in Fedora since I put I changed
>> out my mobo/cpu. It gives the error "problems with audio device." I have
>> been to irc channels #alsa and #pulseaudio with this and those who tried to
>> help were not able to figure out the problem. I put in an amd64 live cd of
>> the latest Ubuntu and booted that, installed Skype and tested it. The
>> results were that Skype worked for voice conferencing, but I could not have
>> sound from any other applications while having a voice conference. I tried
>> launching Skype with the 32 bit alsa-oss script and library too without
>> success. This is a problem when I want to do things such as use Skype
>> simultaneously while using Flash, Linux games, or Amarok. Has anyone found a
>> solution that allowed good sound quality voice conferencing to other users
>> whether they were using Windows or Linux?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>   Your experiance with Fedora is typical. Their Pulse Audio is a pain. I
> went to Hardy with fears that PA would ruin Skype and the applications I
> have that use the DSP in the soundcard. I have both working fine in Harty. I
> am using the OSS mixer without a problem.
>
>   Your problem with Ubuntu sounds like your trying to use two or more audio
> paths in the system and unless you have 2 or more soundcards this will not
> work even if there is no PA.
>
> Karl
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Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
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